Entrepreneurship TBi

Entrepreneurship & IPR Cell was established in 2014 and started working on patenting the ideas of the students. University also started funding the student’s projects for prototyping. The initial amount given to the students was 25 thousand. After looking at the high participation level of the student’s university applied for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development cell (IEDC) in the year 2015 and got a grant of 55 Lacs from Department of Science and Technology for a period of 5 years. The scheme facilitates the student with financial support from the university. Under this initiative the students had to submit their proposal for prototyping and after the scrutiny if the proposal found suitable they were getting an amount of INR 1 Lac for prototyping.

DST allowed a maximum of 5 projects per year but university management sanctioned additional 10 Lacs per year and maximum sanctioned project numbers has been increased to 15. In the first two years 14 prototypes were built by the students and more than 40 patents were filed.

Encouraged by this outstanding performance of the students, the University established Chandigarh University Technology Business Incubator (CUTBI) at Chandigarh University through its own funding. The Technology Business Incubator is also in sync with university vision of being internationally renowned and respected institution imparting excellent education and training based upon the foundation of futuristic research and innovations. In the year 2016-2017 NSTEB (National Entrepreneurship Board) and DST (Department of Science & Technology) sanctioned a grant of 4.12 crore for the Technology Business Incubator. Under CU-TBI there are 39 Startups got incubated and 5 startups pass out.
The major Activities organized by the cell in the past years are as follows:-

Special facilities for women Startup’s